Remove drama from budget cycles
Nobody has ever written an opera about organisational budget cycles – but given the amount of human drama they generate, perhaps someone...
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Oct 1, 20193 min read
Want your staff to be accountable for their numbers?
Empower them. If you want to track the rise and fall of buzzwords over time, the Google Books Ngram Viewer, which tracks word frequency...
Sep 19, 20193 min read
Accountancy as heroism
The financial health of South Africa’s cities and towns is worse than ever before, with only 18 out of 257 municipalities getting clean...
Sep 3, 20193 min read
Recession and Resilience
There might be a recession coming soon; or it might come later. Economists are notoriously bad at recognising recessions until we’re in...
Aug 22, 20192 min read
Stuck in spreadsheet hell?
It’s time to upgrade your budgeting and forecasting process How long does it take your company to prepare its annual budget – two weeks?...
Aug 2, 20194 min read
Will Libra entrench Facebook’s dominance or trigger its downfall?
“Move fast and break things”, Facebook’s motto until 2014, was the mantra of the “disruptive innovation” era. Five years on, the naivety...
Jul 16, 20193 min read
Unravelling the consequences of the US ban on Huawei
The US government has been steadily ramping up its campaign against Chinese tech giant Huawei in the past few years – and its latest move...
Jul 10, 20193 min read
IDU partners with Sage Intacct
IDU Partners with Sage Intacct, bringing together powerful Financial Planning and Analytics capabilities with the innovation and customer...
Jul 2, 20193 min read
Am I an asset?
The accountants attending our annual user conference earlier this year paused for thought about how to navigate the rapidly changing...
Jun 26, 20192 min read
IDU Leader in Budgeting & Forecasting Category of G2 Crowd Report
G2 Crowd, the world’s leading business solutions review website, released its Summer 2019 Report in Chicago on the 24th June 2019....
Jun 6, 20194 min read
The 10X employee
The myth of the 10X programmer has long done the rounds in the software world. Stories abound of unicorn software engineers that can...
May 29, 20193 min read
Why cloud-first shouldn’t mean cloud-only
It’s been ten years since Oracle’s Larry Ellison had his Thomas Watson moment, dismissing cloud computing as a fad, nonsense and absurd....
May 23, 20192 min read
Improved Accountability and Ownership at RAHS
The Royal Agricultural & Horticultural Society of South Australia Inc. (RAHS) is the organiser of the state’s largest ticketed event, the...
May 15, 20192 min read
When is it time to move to specialised software?
Spreadsheets are a wonderful tool and have served many a small business’ budgeting, forecasting and planning needs. But there comes a...
Apr 30, 20194 min read
Am I an asset, or am I just OpEx?
“Am I an asset to my company? Or am I ….” The audience of accountants collectively inhaled, wondering if the attendee asking the question...
Apr 23, 20192 min read
Retailability recommends IDU without reservation
Retailability (Pty) Ltd is a retailer of fashion apparel intended to offer fashionable in house and branded labels at low price points...
Apr 9, 20192 min read
IDU acknowledged as a Leader G2 Crowd 2019 Spring Report
IDU are delighted to be acknowledged as a Leader in the Budgeting and Forecasting category by the prestigious G2 Crowd 2019 Spring...
Apr 2, 20193 min read
The money moral panic
Ponzi scheme! South Sea Bubble! Tulip mania! The dotcom bubble! These are some of the dramatic comparisons being made with the rise of...
Mar 19, 20192 min read
IDU partners with Microsoft Azure
We are thrilled to announce that the award-winning corporate performance management (CPM) solution, idu-Concept, has expanded its cloud...
Mar 7, 20193 min read
IDU and Draftworx team up
IDU, the corporate performance management (CPM) software company that transforms the budgeting, forecasting and reporting process for...
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